Minnesota River

Like, the dogs stop at the water and are picking up his scent.

And now, the Yellow Medicine is a small river that flows into the Minnesota River.

It's not huge.

In places it's knee-deep, but in other spots it does drop to 10 or even 15 feet.

What is most moving about the lynches is the professor takes us to a graveyard near at hand.

This is in a bend in the Minnesota River.

Carney and Kavanaugh, Donovan and Duffy, Fahey and Fitzgerald, McCarthy and...

This is like a song, Professor.

And he was terrified that the thing that he and really everybody else in his town had been scared of for days was now finally happening.

So right on the other side of the woods that surrounded the farm was the Minnesota River.

And over the last decade, lots of people had settled along this river.

And there'd been a town established right nearby and new homes were being built constantly.

They just hadn't heard the real story yet.

They were sort of operating like there was an attack coming.

So apparently, a group of American soldiers had been riding on a boat up the Minnesota River, and for some reason, they'd just gotten overly excited and began firing their guns repeatedly.

So those were gunshots.

You ever heard of that, Joey? Mm-hmm.

was established in 1883 in the Minnesota River Valley and had a caretaker, chef, and other employees that waited on groups of hunters showing up by train.

Other clubs formed around Huron Lake, Lake Christina, Swan Lake, and countless other smaller waters.

And the railroad had essentially, basically boomed the duck hunting in Minnesota.

There's still so much more work to be done.

There's, you know, where the Minnesota, back to tributaries, where the Minnesota River enters the Mississippi River, there's like a harsh line where you can see the agricultural runoff come into the river.

And as you travel down the river, like not to call it Iowa, but also agricultural runoff from Iowa.

So that changes the health of the river a lot.

And the purpose is? Is to lift towboats and barges up.

They go through a lock and it raises them up to that next level.

But they had to do that because that river through that eight-and-a-half-mile gorge between St. Steve Falls and the Minnesota River Confluence was a phenomenal rapids with braided channels and islands.

And it was... phenomenally productive environmentally.

My maternal grandfather, Captain Duncan Graham, a Scotchman by birth, who had seen service in the British Army, was one of a party of Scotch Highlanders, who in eighteen eleven arrived in the British Northwest by way of York Factory, Hudson Bay, to found what was known as the Selkirk Colony near Lake Winnipeg, now within the province of Manitoba, Canada.

Soon after his arrival at Lake Winnipeg, he proceeded up the Red River of the North and the western fork thereof to its source, and thence down the Minnesota River to Mendota, the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers, where he located.

My grandmother, Hazahotawin, was a full-blood of the Mdewakanton band of the Sioux tribe of Indians.

My father, Joseph Boisen, born near Montreal, Canada, was connected with the American Fur Company, with headquarters at Mendota, Minnesota, which point was for many years the chief distributing depot of the American Fur Company, from which the Indian trade conducted by that company on the upper Mississippi was directed.

My maternal grandfather, Captain Duncan Graham, a Scotchman by birth, who had seen service in the British Army, was one of a party of Scotch Highlanders who in eighteen eleven arrived in the British Northwest by way of York Factory, Hudson Bay, to found what was known as the Selkirk Colony near Lake Winnipeg, now within the province of Manitoba, Canada.

Soon after his arrival at Lake Winnipeg, he proceeded up the Red River of the North and the western fork thereof to its source, and thence down the Minnesota River to Mendota, the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers, where he located.

My grandmother, Hazahotawin, was a full-blood of the Mendowakinton band of the Sioux tribe of Indians.

My father, Joseph Boysen, born near Montreal, Canada, was connected with the American Fur Company, with headquarters at Mendota, Minnesota, which point was for many years the chief distributing depot of the American Fur Company, from which the Indian trade conducted by that company on the Upper Mississippi was directed.

My maternal grandfather, Captain Duncan Graham, a Scotchman by birth, who had seen service in the British Army, was one of a party of Scotch Highlanders, who in eighteen eleven arrived in the British Northwest by way of York Factory, Hudson Bay, to found what was known as the Selkirk Colony near Lake Winnipeg, now within the province of Manitoba, Canada.

Soon after his arrival at Lake Winnipeg, he proceeded up the Red River of the North and the western fork thereof to its source, and thence down the Minnesota River to Mendota, the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers, where he located.

My grandmother, Hazahotawin, was a full-blood of the Mdewakanton band of the Sioux tribe of Indians.

My father, Joseph Boison, born near Montreal, Canada, was connected with the American Fur Company, with headquarters at Mendota, Minnesota, which point was for many years the chief distributing depot of the American Fur Company, from which the Indian trade conducted by that company on the upper Mississippi was directed.

My maternal grandfather, Captain Duncan Graham, a Scotchman by birth, who had seen service in the British army, was one of a party of Scotch Highlanders who in eighteen eleven arrived in the British Northwest by way of York Factory, Hudson Bay, to found what was known as the Selkirk Colony near Lake Winnipeg, now within the province of Manitoba, Canada.

Soon after his arrival at Lake Winnipeg, he proceeded up the Red River of the North and the western fork thereof to its source, and thence down the Minnesota River to Mendota, the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers, where he located.

My grandmother, Hazahotawin, was a full-blood of the Mendowakinton band of the Sioux tribe of Indians.

My father, Joseph Boysen, born near Montreal, Canada, was connected with the American Fur Company, with headquarters at Mendota, Minnesota, which point was for many years the chief distributing depot of the American Fur Company, from which the Indian trade conducted by that company on the upper Mississippi was directed.